Direct democracy and nonpartisan rep govt, for a species-mature governance

Direct democracy is a legacy from its 400 years in the Roman Republic. It comes to us in the Declaration Of Independence. DD/rep-govt was ruled a republican form of govt intrinsic to the Constitution by our highest courts during corruption-fighting in the Reform Era, 1898-1918. It needs upgrading to help us fight today's corruption. DD/rep-govt political junkies wanted.

Sunday, October 08, 2006

Crimes of the state govts are continually submerged by the horrendous lies and crimes of the national govt. The horrific treasons of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, passed by Congress in late September and signed into law 17 October, are just the latest anti-Constitution treasons by the 3-branch Bush-Cheney fascist despotism.

Because of the anti-Constitution, ex post facto, retroactive nature of most of the MCA's provisions -- in blatant violation of the Constitition's Article 1, section 9, paragraph 3: "No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed", felony conspiracies against rights in violation of 18 USC 241 and 18 USC 2441, which resulted in many felony murders in the torture gulag over the past three-plus years, were unconstitutionally exonerated, overturning Constitutional provisions with inferior statute provisions. Bush and the Congress created, not law, but a blatantly unconstitutional anti-law regime. That anti-law regime is both a felony conspiracy against citizen rights to have the torture/murder violations of 18 USC 241 and 18 USC 2441 upheld and a violation of the presidential and Congressional oaths of office to protect Constitutional rights -- the combination of which is an act of treason, as defined for the secessionist state legislators in the 1860s.

Felony forfeits all immunities -- legislative, executive, and judicial. Congresspersons voting for MCA-2006, and the Bush-usurper, should be immediately prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned. They won't be, of course, because this fascist despotism masquerading as our national govt controls all of our law enforcement and most of our courts.

For us to overcome the crimes of the national govt, we have to be able to use our sovereign direct democracy (DD) powers in the states where we already have citizen lawmaking rights. The I&R states are the key to any effective action plan that is capable of ending the Bush-Cheney fascist despotism. Unfortunately, the corruption machines of the elites have done their best to close off that approach. We need to understand what has happened in the I&R states and how to overcome those unconstitutional controls.

DD Recap

Direct democracy (DD), is rule by the people through constitutionally-defined governance components, which are decided by binding referendums.

The eight direct democracy governance components that are legal fact in various US state constitutions are the greatest corruption-fighting machine ever devised. They were put into those state constitutions by the greatest democracy movement of recorded history, our Reform Era. But the corruption-fighting machine that they represent has been crippled by a hundred years of unconstitutional lawlessness administered by the state govts involved. And the greatest democracy movement that ever was has been largely drummed out of our history books by the "Madisonian scholars" of academe, whose prestigeous professorships, prestigeous conference destinations, and prestigeous book publishing contracts enslave them to the class-race elite's dictates.

There are eight constitutionally-defined DD governance components in the states. Two are administrative -- election of representatives (in all states) and the recall (in 18 states). Four are legislative -- constitutional amendment initiative (in 18 states), statute law initiative (in 21 states), statute law veto ("referendum" -- in 24 states), and statute law affirmation ("referendum on existing state law" -- only in Nevada, where it stopped an assault by state govt on women's rights and Roe v. Wade in 1990). The final two are both legislative and consultative -- constitutional amendment referral from the state legislature (in 49 states -- it's how the sovereign people authorize changes in their constitutions in every state except Delaware), and statute law referral from the state legislature (in 25 states at last count, but this "bait and switch" component is popular among corrupt legislators, and sure to increase -- all such measures contain something the people want, but should be carefully reviewed for hidden traps that unfairly advantage the elites at the expense of ordinary people).

For the names of the states with each DD governance component, see States DD Chart on the Direct Democracy League site at http://ddleague-usa.net/statesDD.htm

Note that the eight DD governance components include the election of representatives. There's nothing mystical about elections that set them apart from referendums. Elections are nothing more than binding referendums, voted by all eligible citizens in a given jurisdiction, as all referendums are. The arguments that claim distinctions between elections and referendums done for any other purpose are fallacious.

In the genesis of American DD, in the early 1900s, there was one primary purpose that came through in the DD literature. (DD was most often referred to then as 'Direct Legislation'.) Its primary purpose was to achieve the genuine representative govt that the sovereign people had been promised in the Constitution -- and that political corruption had robbed away.

State Govt Unconstitutionalities

Unconstitutional actions against citizen-proposed law are practiced by every govt in every state in which the citizens have I&R rights and powers (initiative and referendum petition processes -- citizen lawmaking). The unconstitutionalities were snapped into place by each state's legislature soon after citizens passed the constitutional provisions granting themselves I&R.

The unconstitutionalities keep the rabble down and the elites' profits and power up and unlimited.

So it has always been. Constitutions and statutes have always been subordinate to the elites' natural law of wealth and power. Vague constitutional provisions give elitist judges the leverage they need to arbitrarily decide in favor of their class. It's a lesson in vagueness that the Constitution's authors learned from ancient Rome's Twelve Tables and the Magna Carta. The American elites knew that the British elites had worked around the rights of Englishmen ever since the Magna Carta.

Violation of our state constitutions date back to before the 1789 Constitution was unconstitutionally ratified, in violation of the standing, enviolable national constitution, the 1782 Articles of Confederation.

Violation of our constitutions by elites will remain our single largest political problem as long as we the sovereign people continue to allow it. We are indirectly responsible for our govts' evils. Until we meet our responsibilities, our govts will go right on murdering ordinary people for profits and power worldwide. The tobacco death industry, and its kickbacks to the predator politicians, is just one of the many co-equal paradigms. Murderers do not stop. They are stopped or they go on murdering.

As soon as one state's citizens walked off the I&R battlefield thinking they'd won, the constitutional criminals in the legislature began writing and passing statutes directing public officials and judges to perpetrate many different types of unconstitutional and felonious crimes against citizen-proposed law.

There are many variations on the theme, but the two most common groups of unconstitutional acts against citizen-proposed law are separation of powers violations and binding judicial review of proposed law.

Most of the separation of powers violations occur when executive branch officials perform legislative or judicial branch functions.

The Secretary of State is frequently ordered to write or re-write the ballot language. Writing the ballot language is an important legislative function, not an executive function. If the Secretary of State tried to write the ballot language for a legislature's statute law referral to the people's referendum, he or she would be tossed out on his/her ear.

The ballot language may very well be a factor in subsequent court actions that must interpret the intent of the citizen-proposed law. Subtle, misleading language written by an executive branch official who represents corporate predators, not the sovereign people, could easily result in an unfavorable court ruling.

Another popular trick in the separation of powers variation is for the Attorney General to deem that a particular citizen-proposed law is not clearly written or conflicts with the standing laws of the state, and must therefore be rejected.

The AG's rejection action is unconstitutional on two counts. First, no executive branch official is permitted to reject a bill of law proposed in accord with constitutional provisions, regardless of whether that proposed law comes from the legislature or from civil society. Second, such an executive branch official's binding judicial review of a proposed law would be unconstitutional even if done by a judge. No constitution, state or federal, defines the judicial power to include binding judicial review of proposed law. Binding judicial review can only be applied after the measure has been signed into finished law.

The only way for such cross-branch acts to be constitutional is for them to be specifically ordered in the state constitution.

The Nebraska constitution's separation of powers provision is typical --

The powers of the government of this state are divided into three distinct departments, the legislative, executive and judicial, and no person or collection of persons being one of these departments, shall exercise any power properly belonging to either of the others, except as hereinafter expressly directed or permitted.

There are no provisions in any I&R state's constitution, allowing such cross-branch actions in the handling of citizen-proposed law -- with the sole exception of Massachusetts. I&R constitutional provisions there so heavily contradict other constitutional provisions that all Massachusetts I&R, since its inception in 1918, has been unconstitutional. Only a statewide constitutional convention will have the comprehensive power needed to sort it all out and eliminate the contradictions.

Outside Massachusetts, the most common unconstitutional stunt beyond the separation of powers violations is the "binding judicial review of proposed law" -- done by judges who know exactly how unconstitutional their binding review is. Again, no US constitution defines the judicial power to include binding judicial review of proposed law. Nonetheless, this unconstitutional stunt is so common that it accounts for most of the delays and rejections of citizen-proposed law.

If state officials or judges pulled either of those stunts -- separation of powers violations or binding judicial review -- on legislature-proposed law, they would be impeached and removed before dinner.

Note that the gauntlet of unconstitutionalities is only selectively applied -- so that civil society doesn't connect the dots.

Citizen-proposed law that is offensive to money-power is stopped -- or worse, passed and turned into a nightmare of anti-DD, anti-sovereign-people, and anti-public-education machinations, as was the case with California's Prop 13, limiting property taxes, in 1978.

Citizen-proposed law that is NOT offensive to money-power sails right on through. Such events prove that the system works -- with deafening huzzahs from the predator politicians.

It's been a successful strategy, helping to keep the people from noticing the unconstitutionalities, for over a hundred years.

And, please, no more specious arguments, claiming that there is some sort of viable distinction between legislature-proposed law and the citizen I&R petition. Both are proposed law, pure and simple.

The I&R petition proposes that a law be passed, not that an executive agency policy or judicial ruling be passed. The I&R petition, once approved by the sovereign people, becomes law, not anything else. The law that the approved I&R petition becomes is open to binding judicial review as law, just as is any law passed by the legislature. The I&R petition is a legislative function within the legislative power of govt and is, purely, proposed law having the protection of all applicable constitutional provisions.

And let's be clear. There are two different levels of constitutional crime being committed against citizen-proposed law in the I&R states. They come together in one criminal conspiracy, but they are separated by the wide gulf of choice.

First, the legislatures begin with their blatantly unconstitutional statutes. They're allowed to pass unconstitutional statutes, with impunity, until what they've done becomes part of a felony conspiracy.

The moment that any two or more individuals comply with any one of those statutes, the unconstitutional statute becomes not law, but an anti-law regime that is part of a felony conspiracy against rights, in violation of 18 USC 241. It also violates 42 USC 1983 -- civil deprivation of rights by state officials or judges.

Felony forfeits legislative immunity. Every state constitution carries that exclusion from legislative immunity. Under 18 USC 241, any legislator who voted for the blatantly unconstitutional statute becomes a felony-perpetrating co-conspirator who can be criminally prosecuted in federal court, despite being an office-holder. (State-defined felonies have also been committed.)

Second, state officials and judges are perfectly capable of choosing to comply, or not to comply, with statute instructions that direct them to blatantly violate the fundamental constitutional law of their state's and nation's sovereign people. If they choose not to comply, there's no crime. However, if they choose to violate constitutional law in the handling of citizen-proposed law, then they become perpetrators of felonious conspiracies against rights.

In the past hundred years, thousands of public officials and judges have chosen to violate their sovereign people's constitutions and laws relating to citizen-proposed law. We can hold all of those constitutional officers responsible for knowing that they were violating constitutional and statute law.

Needless to say, any citizen who is deprived of rights by a criminal conspiracy of state officials or judges, can sue the co-conspirators in federal court on civil charges under 42 USC 1983. Makes no difference whether the criminal prosecution goes to trial or not. Torts have been committed against the persons of citizens.

Examples in Election 2006

In the upramp to every general election, state officials and judges use the gauntlet of unconstitutionalities to keep down the civil society's attempts at good governance. Election 2006 is no exception.

In July 2006, BallotWatch, a site maintained by the I&R Institute, published a piece in PDF format titled, "Early Look At 2006 Ballot Measures". In a section titled, "Removed and Struck Down", this text appears:

"In June, the Colorado Supreme Court removed an initiative intended to deny government services to illegal immigrants on the grounds that it violated the rule that a measure concern only a single subject. In March, the Florida Supreme Court took a redistricting off the ballot also on single subject grounds. "State courts are aggressively wielding the single-subject requirement to deny voters the ability to vote on important policy issues. The Colorado decision is particularly problematic because the Court reasoned that multiple purposes behind the measure meant that it encompasses multiple subjects," said IRI director and University of Southern California professor Elizabeth Garrett.

"In South Dakota, Secretary of State Chris Nelson (R) refused to place two initiatives on the ballot even though petitioners submitted the required signatures. Both initiatives would have repealed existing laws, one authorizing the state's video lottery and the other a tax on cell phones. The measures were disqualified on the grounds that only a referendum could be used to repeal an existing law -- initiatives can only be used to propose new laws. Interestingly, when the legislature originally passed the laws being challenged, a clause was attached to each declaring that they were "necessary for the support of state government", making them not subject to a referendum.

"In Missouri, Secretary of State Robin Carnahan (D) refused to count the petitions for TABOR and eminent domain initiatives after questions arose about the petition process. The TABOR petitions were not counted because the pages were not numbered sequentially by county. The eminent domain petitions were not counted because the ballot title on the petition pages was "insufficient". This was a Catch-22 for the petitioners since they used the ballot title that had been approved by the Secretary of State, but was declared insufficient by a circuit court after the petitions had already been circulating."

Note that the last-mentioned action is a very common one-two govt punch, in which a judge makes an unconstitutional binding judicial review, directing an executive branch officer to re-do his/her unconstitutional legislative function until it is done right. This absurdity of unconstitutionalities accounts for a very substantial number of citizen-proposed laws being delayed from one general election for the two years until the next general election.

All of the state govt actions described in the BallotWatch extract are unconstitutional, felonious, and treasonous.

Costs of the Unconstitutionalities

The harm done is far beyond the delays, alterations, and/or rejections of an individual I&R petition. The people-abusive and costly corruptions that the citizen-proposed law would have ended are continued. The good-governance advantages that would have been enjoyed by most citizens, if not all, are lost. Citizens with good ideas for resolving political problems are deterred from speaking up in the future. Violence is done to constitutionally guaranteed rights. The govt sworn to protect the people's rights has blatantly refused to protect those rights, perpetrating with impunity a treason defined in the 1860s. And, constitutional criminals set themselves above the rule of law -- the single most important legal principle of our nation -- betraying, defiling, and violating it, with impunity.

The unconstitutional and arbitrary blocking of state-level citizen-proposed law is the predators' first line of defense against limitation of their illicitly-gained profits and power. It prevents those same good-governance policies from ganining national traction.

For example, citizens in many I&R states have tried to pass initiatives ending regressive personal income taxes, and replacing them with progressive sales taxes. Of course, sales taxes to support state services would cost the luxury-item-buying elites a lot more money. State govts have unconstitutionally thrown out all such progressive taxation attempts for decades.

Both Major Political Parties

It is very important for this simple fact to register in your brain. Compute this.

The hundred years of lawlessness against I&R by thousands of officials and judges in roughly half of our state govts has been knowingly participated in by the leadership of both major political parties.

The leadership of both major parties have been involved in creating hundreds of unconstitutional statutes that provide continual variation on the theme of lawlessness against citizen-proposed law -- so that the people will not focus on the lawlessness of any one variation.

No rebuilding of either political party will save us from the predators. The leadership of both political parties are predators.

Both political parties are self-contained corruption machines, ready to cooperate with the other on any issue that benefits the class-race elite, the corporate predators, or the predator politicians themselves.

Postscript

Our DD corruption-fighting machine is muddied but extant. We have the power to clean it up and put it back in the hunt for which it was intended.

If the 1-party, 3-branch, fascist despotism in Washington DC has its way, we are already too late. Their tentative locks on our now-privatized and easily hacked electoral system, their tentative locks on the US District Attorneys and many of the US District Courts, and their tentative lock on the Department of Justice, with its central role in the obstruction of justice for all of the despotism's players, may mean that the state govt constitutional criminals are as untouchable as are the national govt's constitutional criminals. It's all tentative now, and we have the power to break those tentative locks -- but it will become permanent if we allow it to continue much longer.

Until we are organized enough to have citizen action groups that reach across state lines, looking for constitutional crimes and their perpetrators, we will be largely ignorant of what is being done to us. Until we have those wide-ranging citizen action groups, we won't have the leverage to clean up our DD corruption-fighting machine.

Organizing is the next big thing.

"The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will." Frederick Douglass said that about his people regaining their freedom in the 1860s.

The meek shall inherit the earth by taming the elites, their govts, and their corporations -- and then enjoying each other's company.

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Note, please. This is direct democracy turf. It's outside the status quo corruption box. It's about fully independent citizen lawmaking, aided by Online Citizen Institutions, melded to nonpartisan rep govt. It's a species-mature governance that centers on political equality, rights, and the rule of law. It's about finding the Bush presidential usurpation to be null and void from its inception on 20 Jan 2001, reversing all of its acts done under color of law, and following with criminal prosecutions for felony conspiracies against citizen rights in all 3 branches. It's about Constitutional renewal, state and national. It's about I&R cleanup and criminal prosecutions in the states for unconstitutional blocking of I&R petitions. Profile -- 60-something techie city dweller, prone to wilderness. Ex-military. Dual majors, Univ Calif Santa Barbara, philosophy & history. Former claims rep, 1st-level appeals officer, SSI rep, and field rep for Social Security Admin. Founder, Direct Democracy League, Jan 1994. Columnist, Populist Party of America.

Science Sites

Offshore Media

Special Reference--
Criminal Federal Reserve

"Open Letter To Gary North: Subprime Crashes Into Criminal Monetery System" --Neitzke, DD Revival, 30 December 2007. Brief subprime and central-banking recap first, then the Fed's and central banking's legal landscape, then a semi-rigorous examination and collapsing of North's unfortunate paraphrasing of central banking's pooh-poohing of subprime illegalities (everybody knew about the frauds, nobaody said anything about the frauds, making all the frauds "common practices", which are not criminal -- a new theory of law and arrogance writ large), then some questions for North at the end.

Aaron Russo's 2006 film, "America: Freedom to Fascism". Free-per-view at Google video, the film is also available on DVD from the AFTF site. Russo connects the unconstitutional and felonious "Federal Reserve Act of 1913" with the fraudulent 1913 ratification of the 16th Amendment and its unconstitutional "personal income tax". From that criminal tandem, he shows how the superrich of the central banking cabal are the true masters of our domestic and foreign policy-making. If Russo's film does not crank up your sense of urgency against the coming North American Union and its dollar-dumping "Amero", then you are probably useless to the American nation.

"Russo's 'Freedom To Fascism'" --Neitzke, DD Revival, 01 November 2006. This is a wide-ranging review of Russo's film. (It is a more rounded-out version of what was published on the Populist Party site as "Outing The Constitutional Criminals".) It argues that Russo's film is an invitation to examine the evidence, not emotion-triggering propaganda pointing people away from the evidence. The essay also examines some major supporting evidence only mentioned in the film and takes to task the money-power shill-trolls who spew lies to criticize the film.

"The Fed--Jekyll Island Monster" --Neitzke, DD Revival, 07 July 2006. Abolishing the unconstitutional and felonious Federal Reserve and its unconstitutional national debt is necessary to our rule of law. Abolishing the Federal Reserve system may be the only way to avert the financial collapse of the US.

Stephen A. Zarlenga's 2002 book, The Lost Science of Money: The Mythology of Money -- The Story of Power. Available directly from the publisher, the American Monetary Institute, Valatie, NY. Nature and history of debt-based money and why we need to institute a debt-free money system. Widely acclaimed by serious students of monetary economics. Former U.S. Treasury official, Richard C. Cook, writes -- "Stephen Zarlenga’s book ... is one of the most important books published in the world in the past 200 years. Someday it will be recognized for the classic that it is .... reform along the lines Zarlenga recommends could transform the economy of the world into a system that would benefit everyone, not just the monetary plutocrats who preside over the globalistic cannibalism that runs amok today."

Special Reference--
Dual-Mode U.S. Politics

Michael Parenti's 2007 (eighth edition) book, Democracy For The Few, Wadsworth Publishing. Parenti critically assesses the dominant dual-mode U.S. politics paradigm -- a public and seemingly honorable facade of fictions fronting for private, behind-the-scenes, criminal corruptions. "By focusing on the relationship between economic power and political power, discussing actual government practices and policies, conspiracies, propaganda, fraud, secrecy and other ploys of government and politics, this book stands apart in its analysis of how U.S. Government works."

Special Reference--
Universal Health Care

"Universal Health Care--Myth and Truth" --Neitzke, DD Revival, 27 October 2007. Universal medical care insurance is not univeral medical care. It's a sop to corproate predators and the superrich from criminal politicians who want the superrich to use the Diebold Electoral Frauds to put them in high office. It's anohter predator elitism carpet-bombing of the middle and lower classes. And it's not just one-dimensionsal greed. Universal health care insurance is another smoke screen, covering the unconstitutional and illegal suppression of EDTA chelation therapy, a biochemical cleaning of the vascular system that is a preventative and curative therapy for atherosclerosis and most of its spinoff diseases -- such as cancer, heart attack, stroke, adult diabetes and on into a very long list. The suppression of EDTA chelation therapy likely could not exist in a universal health care system. The suppression of EDTA chelation allows the medical industry to gouge hundreds of billions of dollars annually out of the society. But beyond the greed-driven money-grubbing, there's horrific human cost. We lose over one million Americans each year to early and unnecessary deaths due to atherosclerosis. Most are not faceless. They're mothers, fathers, siblings, extended family, and friends. We desperately need universal health care.

"VA Medical--Reckless Endangerment Whims" --Neitzke, DD Revival, 13 September 2007. There's something very wrong at the Muskogee (Oklahoma) VA Medical Center (now re-named the Jack C. Montgomery VAMC). I went to their emergency room on 04 September 2007 with double pneumonia. In combination with my core conditions of insulin-dependent diabetes, heart problems, chronic renal failure, and chronic Reiter's syndrome (an inflammation, autoimmune, and bone-deterioration disease that also adversely affects many of my organs), the pneuomonia was a clear threat to my 60-something life. Needing hospital monitoring for any number of possible, near-future emergencies, I was instead given a shot, some antibiotics, some cough syrup, and then pushed out the door. They saved a lot of money by pushing me out the door. As if the reckless endangerment of my life were not enough, I later discovered that at least three doctors played parts in falsifying and fabricating records of my visit. The doctored records blur the evidence of my needing hospitalization, make the doctors look good, and make any complaint of mine look bad. Clearly, those doctors are deeply accomplished fabricators. A written complaint to the VA's "Office of the Medical Inspector" circled through the VA zero-acccountability system, ending with the Muskogee facility manager calling 16 November and giving me a thorough nazi stroking. It's way past time that we absorb the extensive infrastructure of the VA medical system into a universal health care system, ending the VA medical zero-accountability.

18 USC 3 -- Accessory After The Fact -- "Whoever, knowing that an offense against the United States has been committed, receives, relieves, comforts or assists the offender in order to hinder or prevent his apprehension, trial or punishment, is an accessory after the fact."

Gives the "null & void project" outline, describes the smash-mouth politics of the "Unity America" citizen action plan, and discusses some standalone Constitutional amendments that we need to get passed.
Bush is not a president. He was not elected in accord with the Constitution. He is a presidential usurper whose usurpation violates the rights of all Americans to have a president elected in accord with the Constitution. His usurpation is the product of a wide felony conspiracy, defined in and violating 18 USC 241. By constitutional principle, his "presidency" was null and void from inception, regardless of when any judge finds the usurpation to be legal fact.
Every Bush action taken under color of law since 20 January 2001 is null and void -- and is an anti-law regime that has generated new felonies every time the individual anti-law regime has been applied. If we apply ourselves, it will take a decade or longer to unravel the web of treasonous felonies.
Nothing new under the sun. In the 60s BCE, Pompey ripped the anti-republican constitution and laws of the usurper-dictator Sulla out of Rome's legal fabric, returning Rome to the great republic that it had been for nearly 400 years.

Unorganized, we the sovereign people are nothing. Organized regionally and nationally in citizen action groups outside the political parties, the NGOs, the anti-war protests, and the flash mobs, we are all-powerful. We can operate citizen action plans such as "Unity America", adding a "jury nullification" project that will overturn the elitist judges' anti-Constitutional intentions.
Saul Alinski, hugely successful organizer of the left, 1940s to 1970s, taught his crews to "never do anything for anyone who can do it themselves--never", to "see the world as it is", to "fix on the world that you wnat to have", and to organize. We need to relearn those Alinski rules.

We should not trust a national Article 5 constitutional convention, no matter who calls it. Article 5 gives Congress an ace in the hole: the choice of ratifying any amendment in either the state legislatures or the special ratifying conventions.
Recent generations of predator elitists have been actively working toward superrich ownership of the state legislatures. "Soft money", with no limit and no accounting, floods perqs and the reelection campaigns at the state level. Ownership of the state legislatures by the superrich is obvious.
Hamilton's Article 5 is a trap. In this political culture of lying, where bribery money is SCOTUS-sanctified free speech, it will be a simple matter for the superrich to find sufficient sycophants among the convention's elected delegates. With the fawning parasites of the superrich crafting the convention's proposed provisions, and the superrich-owned state legislators voting ratification of the convention's proposals, citizen rights will be further limited and opportunities for predator greed greatly expanded.
I've shifted from advocating a 2nd NCC (national constitutional convention) based on Article 5 to advocating standalone constitutional amendments campaigned individually.
We can count on our amendments being willingly done by the politicians in Congress after they've gained THE FEAR from the continually escallating, smash-mouth politics of the "Unity America" citizen action plan -- or anything similar.

Another Motive For
Corporate Globalization

Two looks at a nasty surprise coming for Americans. In a parallel to Katrina's mauling of New Orleans, the natural disaster surprises have been secreted away from us by American govt.
Two active supervolcanoes in the western US -- the largest at Yellowstone, the other at Long Valley, just SE of Yosemite Nat'l Park in California -- are past-due on their supereruption cycles. In keeping with Bush junk science and fascism, data is being intentionally fragmented and/or hidden. The public is not being given anywhere near the complete picture for either of those natural monsters.
Geologic history shows that a minimal explosive supereruption is hundreds or thousands of times greater than St. Helens in 1980. Either of the supervolcanoes is capable of such a supereruption. The immediate kill-zone would be a radius of about 600 miles. Unprepared, tens of millions will die, just in the 600-mile radius. The western US will be largely destroyed. The midwest breadbasket will be largely buried in volcanic glass. Global volcanic winter will last 5 to 10 years, killing much of the biosphere. The event will seriously alter economics and politics around the world.
In apparent preparation, many US corporations have moved their production facilities offshore. In apparent preparation, the collusion of corporate fascism and US govt fascism is quietly birthing -- behind the busy political fictions that misdirect the American people -- the North American Union and its dollar-dumping Amero.

Lays out the growth of American fascism, from Rockefeller's Standard Oil, to the Gilded Age butcheries of ordinary people, to the German war-machine rebuild in the Interwar Period, to participation in and war profiteering from the Nazi slave-labor camps, to Nixon Era corporate laissez faire, to Reagan Era super laissez fair and voodoo economics, to Bush Era nation-crushing laissez faire and super-voodoo economics.
Compilation of twenty-six categories of Bush-Cheney fascist practices:
"No waffling. As with German and Italian fascism in the early 20th Century, the Bush-Cheney Usurpation is pure fascism. It demonstrates a strong-man leader, extreme secrecy, controlled media, fraudulent elections, judicial rulings clearly violating the Constitution, negation of the rule of law by all three branches of government, obstruction of justice for political and corporate leaders, the making of ex post facto law to immunize political and corporate leaders from past crimes, redefinition of established law for corruption and ideological purposes, redefinition of commonly understood language terms to avoid legal retribution (e.g., 'torture' to mean only treatment resulting in severe organ damage or death, and 'terrorist surveillance' to mean the interception of any communication or bank activity done by US citizens), the making of unconstitutional law to limit rights, suppression of Constitutional rights for profits and power, misuse of policy and law for unstated intentions, cronyism and corruption, sham national security obsessions, warmaking for profits and power, supremacy of the military, sham nationalism for the masses while leadership creates policy to benefit the transnational and stateless superrich, hard science made politically relative, anti-intellectualism outside the political and corporate elites, suppression of critical thinking in public education, intermixing of government and religion, enemies and scapegoats obsessions, destruction of undesirable minority population and cultural centers (e.g., Warsaw ghetto and New Orleans), male chauvinism and suppression of women's rights, and corporation protection extremes including lassez faire economic policy and suppression of labor's rights and power."
The essay briefly describes how we can get back our lost constitutional republic.

For over a hundred years, govts in the I&R states have unconstitutionally and arbitrarily delayed, altered, and/or rejected citizen-proposed law offensive to money-power. This gauntlet, to which every citizen-proposed I&R petition is subjected, is based on unconstitutional anti-law regimes passed by the legislatures and signed by the Governors as if they were proper statute law. The anti-law regimes include "separation of powers" unconstitutionalities, in which executive branch officials perform legislative branch functions, and the horrendously unconstitutional "binding judicial review of proposed law". No American constitution defines the judicial power to include binding review of proposed law. Judges would be quickly impeached and removed if they tried it on legislature-proposed law. For over a hundred years, the leadership of both major political parties have perpetrated state and federal felonies against every I&R petition processed by state govt. After the criminalities come the bad press for all citizen lawmaking. First the corruptions, then the lies. The clean-up is do-able.
Our constitutional renewals need to eliminate political parties from all govt matters at both national and state levels, following Nebraska's 1934 still-successful nonpartisan unicameral legislature. Nonpartisan rep govt, with fully independent citizen lawmaking, buttressed by online citizen institutions, is the species-mature governance that will auto-center on the social norms underpinning our Constitution -- political equality, rights, and the rule of law.

It's our best comparison-contrast of truth and the American situation. I hope the author will continue to develop and edit it over what little time we have remaining for dissent.

Remedies Essays

"Judicial Independence: Zero Accountability" -- Neitzke, 16 August 2006. Judicial independence was originally intended to keep the elites safe from commoners, not to keep judges safe from politicians. The zero accountability of judges led to SCOTUS crushing social justice in the Gilded Age, again in the 1920s and 1930s, and again in today's Bush-Cheney Usurpation. We need to end their aiding the predator elites with impunity. Bush v. Gore, 12 Dec 2000, was an unconstitutional, felonious, and treasonous SCOTUS ruling that aided only the predator elites. We need to make the federal bench accountable to the sovereign people -- with nonpartisan elections and the recall by citizens in each Court's jurisdiction. Note -- This post marks my personal change from advocating a 2nd Nat'l Constitutional Convention to advocating standalone Constitutional amendments for our renewal.

"Extraordinary Rights Of Americans" -- Neitzke, DD Revival, 24 May 2006. (Argues that fundamental human and political rights are humanly absolute, not politically relativistic, and that once established, such rights live forever. Further, that the "extraordinary rights of Americans", as distinct from the "traditional rights of Englishmen", were given to us in the Declaration of Independence, hallowed on the Revolution's battlefieds, and betrayed by the predator elitists who authored the Constitution.)

"Direct Democracy Rights" -- Neitzke, DD Revival, 19 June 2006. (Argues that the January 1863 Emancipation and its murderous KKK aftermath is one of the great historical justifications for why the Constitution should have had DD/rep-govt from its beginnings -- and for why we should create it now.)

"Forward, Direct Democracy, 2.0" -- Neitzke, DD Revival, 27 June 2006. Last updated 27 September 2006. (Basic facts and developmental history concerning DD. Comparisons of the founding principles and implied promises of the Declaration of Independence with the realities of the pure rep govt political dynamic from the Constitution -- which buries the DOI's implied promises out of reach of the ordinary people, for the benefit of predator elitist profits and power. The sidebar essay below, "Executive Summary of Direct Democracy, 2.0", appears in this post so that readers can make comments on the sidebar text, if they wish.)

"The Machinery of Democracy: Protecting Elections in an Electronic World" -- Brennan Center for Justice, NYU School of Law, 27 June 2006. (Report based on year-long study concludes "that all three of the nationâs most commonly purchased electronic voting systems are vulnerable to software attacks that could threaten the integrity of a state or national election".)

"Group identifies new flaws in Diebold e-voting machines", The Raw Story, 31 July 2006. (Article, Diebold Hack-O-Matic II. Describes newly-discovered toggle switch inside the latest, no-paper-trail Diebold TS machines. Allows the hacker-operator to load different operating systems from different sources. The OS in the machine's EPROM is the certified software that can pass any test. Toggle the switch to load an uncertified and easily-hacked OS from FLASH. Will produce whatever vote count the hacker wants. Diebold has retro-fitted most of these machines with modems, so that the hacker can work by telephone. Switching back to the EPROM leaves no trace of what happened, but it does leave the hacked-in votes.